The Glamour of Technology - SIM2, TI & DolbyBlog 11/30/2007 Post a commentLast night I attended a special preview called "The Glamour of Technology," which was hosted by the renowned Italian projector company SIM2. The purpose of the press event was to single out their new Grand Cinema C3X projector that is reportedly the smallest and highest-performing Full HD 3 Chip projector on the market with Texas Instruments DLP Products' latest DarkChip4 chip.

$95,000 for a wristwatch?Programmable Logic DesignLine Blog 11/29/2007 Post a commentI'm currently in the market for a new wristwatch. I know the one I want, but when I called the store to ask the price, their answer made me cry!

AMD and the 'Fujitsu Factor'Blog 11/26/2007 Post a commentRight-wing bloggers in the United States wasted no time in venting their outrage at the purchase last week of an 8 percent stake in Advanced Micro Devices by Abu Dhabi's government-owned Mubadala Development Co.

Good times for automationIndustrial Control DesignLine Blog 11/21/2007 Post a commentThere's a chance we're headed for a downturn, but industrial automation may face better prospects than other industries.

Will Google bid alone?Blog 11/19/2007 Post a commentAccording to a recent Reuters report, Google just might go it alone when it comes to bidding on the 700-megahertz spectrum airwaves necessary to launch a U.S. wireless network.

Wireless and autism -- where is the link?Blog 11/19/2007 Post a commentWe have had scares about cellular phones and cancer and more recently suggestions that Wi-Fi causes all kinds of nausea and illnesses. Now a couple of scientists are warning that wireless networks may be responsible for accelerating the rise of autism in children.

CES 2008 PreviewBlog 11/15/2007 Post a commentEarlier this week, I attended the annual CES (Consumer Electronics Show) Preview, which was held in New York City. According to CEA (Consumer Electronics Association), the 2008 International CES, the world's largest tradeshow for consumer technology, returns to Las Vegas, January 7-10, 2008.

MHSDL Favorites For 2007 or, what your competition is readingBlog 11/12/2007 Post a commentI love this time of year. Always amazed at how rapidly the year disappeared, I tend to shrug my shoulders and begin to plan for its end. Since I have a large family, planning involves loads of holiday shopping and visiting. What it means for Mobile Handset DesignLine readers is recap time. Which did you like most of the articles I posted? Which ones made the top five so far?

Prosperity 101: Education equityBlog 11/12/2007 Post a commentEver since the National Academy of Engineering released its watershed report on globalization, "Rising Above the Gathering Storm," in 2005, conventional wisdom has held that there is a shortage of U.S. engineers, and that American students are falling behind in math and science.

The new breed of satellite HD STBsBlog 11/7/2007 Post a commentI have been waiting in expectation for some time now for the new HD channels to be added by DirecTV. While they were one of the first satellite providers with high-definition channels, it had seemed that they were lagging behind DISH Network.

The porcupine problemBlog 11/7/2007 Post a commentSDR folks (NXP calls its embedded vector processor an SDR solution) should sit up and take notice. I was under the impression that the RF component was the toughest nut to crack. Maybe NXP had done it.

HD's name has lost its lusterBlog 11/6/2007 Post a commentWhat happens with the naming of HD beyond 1080p is still up for grabs. I have used the phrase "ultra hi-def" on numerous occasions, skipping right past "very hi-def," which frankly just doesn't quite sound very hi def.

The sky is not fallingBlog 11/6/2007 Post a commentThe news that Mentor Graphics has downgraded the guidance for its quarter revenue has generated much talk in the EDA community, and people are busy trying to figure out if this is a signal of more fundamental changes in the industry.

OpenMAX is going strongSignal Processing DesignLine Blog 11/5/2007 Post a commentOpenMAX is an open, royalty-free API that provides standardized interfaces to multimedia software such as A/V codecs and graphics libraries. Here's what you need to know about it.

The Mobysaurus ThesaurusProgrammable Logic DesignLine Blog 11/5/2007 Post a commentLight in size but heavy in features, this little scamp is a comprehensive, feature-rich, easy-to-use, freeware English thesaurus for Windows.